WASHINGTON - Canadian cattle producers have pledged to gather and distribute more information about the size of their herds and the number of cattle in Canadian feedlots, U.S. industry leaders said on Tuesday.
“They have not had cattle-on-feed reports and inventory reports as we know them here in the U.S.,” said Dana Hauck, chairman of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association's international markets committee, told reporters during a conference call.
That has given Canadian producers an unfair advantage because they are able to find out far more about U.S. cattle numbers than the other way around, Hauck said.
“They certainly look at our numbers in making their management decisions,” NCBA President Clark Willingham said.
U.S. producers want access to comparable information about Canadian herds, he said.
At a cattle trade summit in Denver on Monday, the Canadian industry agreed to provide biannual inventory reports, weekly slaughter reports and cattle-on- feed reports that could be intergrated into U.S. cattle-on-feed reports, Hauck said.
The effort will begin after some “deliberation” and will likely be funded and conducted by the Canadian industry, rather than the Canadian government, he said.
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